The BuildingSMART alliance™ (Alliance) is the premier organization in the United States chartered to coordinate and provide technical development; standards development and adoption; and political, and financial support for advanced digital technology in the real property industry—from concept, design and construction through operations and management. The buildingSMART alliance operates within the independent nonprofit National Institute of Building Sciences (Institute).

1. You can’t manage what you don’t measure

2. You can’t automate what you don’t understand

3. Cultural is the primary barrier to efficient construction delivery, not technology. Information is currently exchanged by disparate teams, in different ways and with different content for the same purpose.

4. Paper-centric process, email, phone create even more problems.

5. In order to take advance of BIM and digital technology…. PROCESS MUST CHANGE!